Sentences with phrase «left shadow chancellor»

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When he was appointed shadow chancellor even some MPs who were sympathetic to Corbyn were horrified, believing the caricature of McDonnell, a ferocious short tempered hard left warrior, such a determined revolutionary that he fell out with Ken Livingstone in the 1980s in a dispute on which he was to the insurrectionary left of the GLC leader.

The former shadow chancellor attacked critics of Ed Miliband as the «delusional left», saying they would keep Labour out of power for a decade.

As shadow chancellor Ed Balls has warned, the government's failed plan risks leaving a permanent dent in our nation's prosperity.

The former shadow chancellor, one of the highest profile victims of last year's Conservative election victory, will go from allegations of being too left wing to allegations of having two left feet on the show.

The so - called «McDonnell amendment», named after the shadow chancellor who was long assumed to be its likely future beneficiary, is strongly backed by the left.

Labour decided to leave the big decision until after the election, the shadow chancellor says.

They've got a novel idea - you hide your shadow chancellor by leaving him on the front bench.»

The author is a former news editor of the left - wing magazine Tribune and he sits on the national committee of the Labour Representation Committee, which is chaired by shadow chancellor John McDonnell.

Billy Bragg has also invited Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell to address his Left Field stage, according to the Guardian.

There is «no way» left - wing activists will be allowed to force moderate Labour MPs out, the shadow chancellor said.

But speaking to BBC Radio Leeds reporter Daragh Corcoran in January, the shadow chancellor said: «If you abolish the whole status it will end up costing Britain money because some people will leave the country.»

Now leaving aside the hypocrisy of McDonnell's comments - he himself has repeatedly shared platforms with Tories on issues ranging from airport expansion to closing Guantanamo Bay - it is incredible that the shadow chancellor should choose Khan of all people to criticise at this moment.

To recap: we now have a party led by a man who never expected to leave the back benches; a shadow chancellor best described as «maverick», with a treasure trove of past quotes already carefully dug up and filed at Tory HQ, providing a handy media drip - feed for the next five years.

It was Gordon Brown who, as shadow chancellor, first stunned the political world by announcing on the Today programme in January 1997 that «we will leave the basic rate of tax unchanged and we will leave the top rate of tax unchanged».

Labour on the other hand has been all over the place between the Blaitite rump who largely support Osborne, a shadow chancellor who never stamped his mark on a credible alternative policy, and a Left whose calls for growth were ostentatiously ignored.